Major Components of .NET Framework

.NET Framework comprises of rich set of components that makes it complete and dominant software development platform. The following are the major .NET framework components.

Common Language Run-time
Base Class Libraries
Framework Class Libraries

Common Language Run-time (CLR)

CLR is a virtual execution environment that works as a abstraction layer betweeen the operating systems and applications. CLR makes sure that the applications are written in the .NET languages that are specified by the Common Language Specification (CLS).

Base Class Libraries (BCL)

These libraries consist of pre-defined codes that can be used for various low-level programming tasks. Several common functions such as reading, writing data from the I/O devices are available in these libraries which can be utilized by the .NET applications.

Framework Class Libraries (FCL)

FCL is the collection of classes, interfaces and data types that can be utilized for optimizing the entire application development process. The entire FCL is divided into various namespaces and organized as an hierarchical tree structure.

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